Australian soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam: Words from the battlefield

Title: Australian soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam: Words from the battlefield
Creator: Karageorgos, Effie
Relation: Bloomsbury Studies in Military History
Relation: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/australian-soldiers-in-south-africa-and-vietnam-9781472585806/
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Resource Type: book
Date: 2016
Description: The South African and Vietnam Wars provoked dramatically different reactions in Australians, from pro-British jingoism on the eve of Federation, to the anti-war protest movements of the 1960s. In contrast, the letters and diaries of Australian soldiers written while on the South African and Vietnam battlefields reveal that their reactions to the war they were fighting were surprisingly unlike those on the home fronts from which they came. Australian Soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam follows these combat men from enlistment to the war front and analyses their words alongside theories of soldiering to demonstrate the transformation of soldiers as a response to developments in military procedure, as well as changing civilian opinion. In this way, the book illustrates the strength of a soldier's link to their home front lives.
Description: 1st ed
Subject: Australian soldiers; South African war; Vietnam war; letters; diaries
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1442312
Identifier: uon:41651
Identifier: ISBN:9781472585820
Language: eng

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